If you make your political ideas a fundamental part of who you are, it makes them so much harder to change. When your beliefs are built into your community, your work, your lifestyle, and how you identify; when you’ve quite literally bought and worn the t-shirt, changing such opinions is much like changing your skin. It’s difficult. One of these stubborn ideas is the antiquated notion of domestic violence being a “gendered crime”, and that ‘the vast majority of victims are women’; with male survivors a mere rounding error. Such an idea is not reflected in the data – which continually proves that women and men are equally violent in relationships. Straus, Dutton, Gelles, Desmarais, Steinmetz, Whitaker, Fiebert… the world’s leading researchers line up to show us the reality of domestic violence, and we wave them away. Why? Because our sassy mug, garish t-shirt, or that savage tweet says differently. Paper after paper, survey after survey; each is slid across the table, to show equal rates of abuse, and each is rejected like a petulant child splitting out their vegetables. Dozens, hundreds, thousands of studies, each showing gender symmetry, have been ignored, erased or denied for decades; so as to protect the egos and livelihood of the misinformed and the malicious. And so the truth of the domestic violence industry becomes clear… The mission is not really to protect abuse victims, it is to protect a divisive and outdated feminist ideology, and to save face, at the cost of lives. So how high does the mountain of evidence have to grow before we accept the uncomfortable truths it unveils? How many sources, studies and surveys do you need? How many lives will such people sacrifice for their own pride? How many times will the toddler stamp its feet, whinge and whine, before quietly chewing upon what the data tells us? The ugly but uncontroversial truth – that women can do anything a man can, and that includes being abusive. What do you think? ~ PASK Images by Wesley Tingley, Valeria Nikitina, Sheshan, Sear Greyson, PJ Gal Szabo, Kyle Johnson, Christa Dodoo #domesticviolence #domesticabuse #malesurvivors

2023-12-18